SLIDE 22 Tensor Networks and You Nikko Pomata How do you network tensors?
Tensors: a review The tensor-network notation Tensor network examples
Tensor network methods
Matrix product states (MPS) Projected Entangled Pair States Coarse-graining tensors Entanglement Renormalization
Tensor Networks and You
FINDING MATRIX PRODUCT STATES
Usually we’re trying to find or approximate the ground state of a
- Hamiltonian. How do we find the best MPS?
Variational
Find a ground state by minimizing
ψ |H| ψ = E ψ |ψ , remove all instances of the tensor Ai and solve the resulting generalized eigenvalue problem. This is the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method, or DMRG, originally formulated by Steven White without matrix product states.
Projection
Take an arbitrary state |ϕ , and estimate e−βH |ϕ , in the limit β → ∞. Use the Suzuki-Trotter expansion to approximate e−βH as a product of “small” two-site operators. Use a truncated SVD to return the state to MPS form after successive
- applications. This is the
Time-Evolving Block Decimation method, or TEBD. These are the two general approaches we apply to find
tensor-network ground states
These methods are exact, up to machine precision, as χ → ∞. Can apply to infinite, homogeneous spin chains: now find
dominant eigenvector of transfer matrices